01/05/2014

Of arms and anuses

"Mrs. Tipton went over to him and put her anus around his neck. " My dear," she said, rapturously. " I have been hoping for years that you would talk that way to me."

Not being able to tell your arm from your anus may seem an amusing misfortune, but one great advantage of digitising books is the ability to search the text. This ability is lost if instead of being carefully scanned they are carcfully scannod.

Comments

You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

A mere mutilation of minims, as in the OCRing that turns the fictional city of Vindium into Vmdmm. But hopefully the status quo ante helium will soon be restored. Or as the printers say, Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.